Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

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that when you tell them, actually that training doesn't work for you because it's putting you in a state of intensity that drives cortisol up, but it's not a strong enough stress to invoke the post-exercise growth hormone and testosterone responses that we want to dampen that cortisol. So this is why we have that hyperbole of women who are in their 40s plus shouldn't do high-intensity work.